The Archive · 1930

Courthouse Stormed

Bombay, Apr. 16.

The -at Indian Peninsular Rail-wayman's Union has called off the railway-strike which started on. February 4, when the men demanded, higher wages and better conditions.

The police were compelled to fire nine shots at a riotous mob outside the City Magistrate's Court this Jafternoon. The mob stormed the (Court and smashed the windo Two European sergeants were Jured in a melee in the Court compound.

Apr. 18, "It looks Jocks like the calm before the storm," remarked a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, referring to the fact that there is no news of any arrest to-day, which is the quietest in Bombay and in the. Lombay Presidency, since Gandhi Iunched his campaign against the:

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